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Archimedes's steam cannon

13 July 2010

Read more: Reconstructed: Archimedes’s flaming steam cannon

Did the ancient Greek inventor Archimedes build a solar-powered steam cannon that fired flaming projectiles? It’s been suggested he did, and below is a graphical reconstruction of how it might of worked.

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